that was the idea at the time terry of -- that was the idea at the time. many of the issues are related to the alleyway in the picture. you can see there is a big fence right there. it is not an open, visible space. it attracts the wrong element. to open that up and make it more accessible will make it safer and more comfortable. two more specific projects. one is on folsom st.. it is lane conversion from four lanes to treat with a center turn lane. something similar was done a number of years ago. with the extra space, we would reallocate that to greening and pedestrian enhancements. there would be improvements for the buses. dpw is designing this and going through approval. supervisor mar: i am happy for the mission district. i am very jealous of the money that flows for areas that really need in the city. i hope that we can also seek funds for a supervisor c ohen's district and others. >> this is through the program that the mtc has. the city generally gets four or five projects. there are other projects around the city that have gotten this money. seco

but i was intrigued by the idea of where did we get the idea in the first place that there were these ideas that were outside history? and the second reason i really came to this topic is that we're living through a moment of a resurgence of populism. i think we'd probably all agree on that, different kinds of populism. and common sense is the idea that's at the root of populism. in some ways this book is a prehistory of pop populism. how did we ever get the notion that ordinary people together with kitchen table solutions might know better than experts, policy wonks in washington? that's, that's -- those two roots, kind of an interest in politics and an interest in historical writing combined. >> host: well, what do you think about the fact that glenn beck and the tea party movement have adopted thomas paine's common sense? >> guest: yeah. i find it fascinating. so for years and years really until the reagan years tom paine was considered the patron saint of the left. he's the favorite founding father of radicals. he was much hated, really, in the early 19th century in america for hi

the idea is that you look at it and say that success is in the red zone.he idea is that if you look at the other thanks -- things in your life that are succeeding, you learn from it. success and failure are very close together. inside every success are the seeds enormous failure. in every failure, there's the opportunity for great success. they are not miles apart. they are close together. you are always going to have the likelihood that something is not going to work. the thing is to recognize that you can inculcate that culture in the people you collaborate with and have great success. tavis: last week, larry king was here interviewing me about a new book i have out about failure. at the end of that conversation, he did something he is known for doing quite well. he told a very funny story. larry king is a great storyteller. i have read it the book. i have heard about you. you are a good storyteller. being a good storyteller is helpful. do you have to be a great storyteller to "tell to win"? >> people feel like storytelling is sitting around a campfire.

idea. we honestly didn't think the company was a good idea. we talked to a bunch of people, they said it's a terrible idea. there's quickbooks out there and they're making a bunch of money. how are you going to take over this market? we didn't think it was a good idea, actually. >> we'll talk about your discouragement more in a minute. ryan, how does somebody know something is worth pursuing? >> like jessica said, you don't know up front that it's possible but you can feel an inkling if it's a good idea or not. if it's something you're passionate about and you can see yourself doing it in the long run, that's a good idea. you have to validate your idea. >> we'll get to that in suft a second. how do you validate it, prove that this is a good idea? your mom's going to tell you it's a good idea. >> sure. >> that doesn't really necessarily help you. >> even your friends may do the same thing. in our case we actually built paper prototypes. we had interactive prototypes. we just started building it. we went through several iterations before we real

here is the idea. the new idea of quantum mechanics in the early part of the 20th century was that whereas newton said, tell me how things are today and i will predict how the will be tomorrow. the universe is like a giant clock. out use mathematics to turn the crank forward and predict how things will be. the observations have established that is a very accurate way of did not things when applied to everyday objects or to the men's motion or to rock that you throw in and tells you what happened. you do the observation and tests. and people are being asked to probe the microscopic realm that whole structure begins to fall apart. >> different universe. >> simply different realm. let's not use the word universe into many different ways. a completely different environment. in some ways, why should the laws that work on everyday skills also work on tiny scales? it turns out that they don't. the laws of quantum physics and the idea of quantum physics is that you can only predict the likelihood, the probabili

a result -- for instance, you close off an area from fishing, and you fish in another area, and the idea that you closed off, the stocks rebuild, and sometimes they don't, and we don't know why. that's because there's a lot of things going on that we don't understand. >> thank you. on my left here. >> yeah,s movie, "inconvenience truth" brings the idea of climate control to the fore front -- >> could you speak into the microphone, please. >> sorry. the movie, al gore, you know, the " inconvenient truth" movie brought climate control to the forefront and afterwords there

the idea here is that the whole might be greater than the sum of the parts. if we went ahead and negotiated with the developer to point to $5 million, improving the alleyways and starting to contribute to one of the parks, that is a great thing. we can get the work done really. we don't have to wait around for it to go through the process to issue the money. the agreement is attractive. there will be the density support of the infrastructure right there. that is one of the appealing things about it. we realize there was an opportunity to get this developer to participate and potentially find a bond purchasers. whether it is the general contractor or another interested party, i will buy an rfd bond. when the increment is instead of a small portion of the public from getting built out, we could double or triple the size of the improvements. there is another advantage, it is not just that people will be able to improve and enjoy the public realm of the might be able to do it cheaper. we could do it all at once. that is probably the simplest explanation of how th

the idea of the justice system only belonging to the prosecution is what has to change. when i got to stand up and say jonathan shapiro on behalf of the united states of america -- and the defense lawyer had to say joe smith for this shmuck -- you get a sense that the system has bought into it. if you convict an innocent man, you have committed a far worse crime than any other crime because you have let the guilty party off scot-free. that is incorrect incredibly -- an incredibly important message. if anybody is waving the flag, it ought to be the public defender's office. their reluctance to do so, somehow, the sense that if they do so in will make them seem pro-government or some kind, i have never been able to fully grasp. >> let me ask a question. should we remake the image of the public defender in to the public crusader? is that what we want to do, do we need to, should we? >> i certainly think so. i bought into the public crusader thing when i was a child. ironically, here i am, not serving as a criminal defense attorney or public defender. i wanted to be a crimin

and that lead to the inception of the idea of the piece. and it was one idea among many that ended up kind of bleeding from the media or from the newspapers into, you know, the play itself. which now, you know, it started off, the first scene is that scene with the two soldiers and the tiger and how it goes off not story about the translator and of the people. >> rose: tell me who your character is. >> i play a character by the name of mousa and mousa is, you know, just like lots of iraqies that were displaced at the begins of the war. he is a person that was an artist who was a top area artist. and he has then become a translator for the american soldiers. and being an earnest, loving guy, he wants to be the best translator that he can can be. but the past constantly is coming to haunt him, literally. and it's-- he goes on this journey that is just beautiful. and very, you know, very real. >> and you play the tiger. >> the essence of a tiger, yeah. >> the essence of a tiger. >> and pretty much after the first scene, a ghost, evolving very q

well, here's the idea. so the new idea of quantum mechanics in the early part of the 20th century was that whereas newton said tell me how things are today, and i will predict how they will be tomorrow, the universe is like a giant clockwork, i'll use my mathematics to turn the crank forward and predict how things will be, and the observations established that that was a way of thinking about things that was very accurate when applied to everyday objects like glasses or to the moon's motion or to a rock that you throw. newton can tell you what will happen, you do the observation, and it does happen. when people began to probe the microscopic realm, that whole structure began to fall apart. >> different universe there. >> completely different. different realm. let's not use the word universe in the too many different ways tonight, but a completely different environment. why should the laws that work on everyday scales also work on tiny scales? and it turns out that they don't. the new laws, the laws of quantu

that is the idea at the heart of this campaign. that is the idea at the heart of america. this is not my campaign. this is your campaign. [applause] i've got to tell you -- there will come a time when i will fully engaged in this race. when the time comes, i will be campaigning. [laughter] i will be ready to go. i've got to tell you right now -- i still have his day job. [laughter] [applause] that is why i will need your help more now than ever. this campaign is still in its early stages but now is the time when you can help shape it to make sure it gets out of the gate, strong. andgrayer and i may littledinged up. i know there are times when some of you have felt frustrated because we have had to compromise with republicans on some issues. there have been times when people are frustrated because we did not get everything done the first two years. there have been times where i have felt the same way you do. you know what? we knew this would not be easy. we knew that on a journey like this, there will be setbacks and detours. there'll be times where you stumble. we also kne

the way? and so i realized that i needed to turn in part to why we get so many of these bad ideas, why the law schools keep turning out certain kinds of bad ideas, and it's not just that they are randomly generated about ideas, and some of it, but only some of it is ideological. todd mentioned the law school's, let me understand again, are not exactly hotbeds of the literal thinking these days despite the best efforts of richard epstein, randy burnett, john mcginnis, richard epstein, richard prisoner, richard epstein -- [laughter] they are outnumbered, and it depends on which study you look at. in some studies it's only 6-1 or 8-1 democrats to republicans and a mother must be exaggerated 23-1 at columbia. those figures may be exaggerated, and yet harvard according to people who did go for 30 years without hiring a single republican, the elena kagan i believe, and they maintained a committee over the lack of diversity while that wasn't hiring any republicans. john mcginnis of northwestern put it this way. even as the tory party are in sorry, the anglican church in great britain has been describ

they are not wasting the this idea -- the are not a small minority foisting this idea on the majority of. deer sorted internally force representing about half of lebanon that that voice of the other half that or destroying our country for your project. but it's the grassroots they have to do this again and again. >> roi i was wondering if you could tell me what his bill's view is regarding persecution of violence against the muslims outside of lebanon and some countries that come to mind like iraq and pakistan and further, do you ever see hezbollah forming into the shia movement? >> they've worked to be hard for in a logical beacon for the movement but they've been careful not to -- they don't want our beyond lebanon, they want influence beyond the borders they sent advisers to hamas for example and gaza and they cannot operate a lot with outreach efforts to the shia activists and militants in places like iraq and they speak publicly about all these issues. they don't want to direct the piece of the conflicts. they have to a limited extent succeeded themselves of the bridge at a time

people the idea this is a major pedestrian, bicycle quarter. they give a diversity of street types that help people know immediately whether they are and where they are in the context of the bigger site, as opposed to an anonymous replication of the same kind of street-odd angles. again, emphasizing the better streets plan is such an important design mechanism, helping us design not just at the service level, but looking at substrate elements, looking at sustainability, looking at sustainable landscaping. i argue that landscaping is transportation commission. if you put services and businesses within walking distance of home, it is so much easier for people never to have to bring their cars out to take their kids to day care, to school, the corner store for milk. while we talk about transportation as pedestrian, bike, transit, and cars, land use is a big part of it. giving people neighborhood-scale services within a block or two of their residences is a san francisco tradition and one being proposed in this project as well. these are just images

christianity, whether god is the one who required that sacrifice, or not. >> that's right. >> the whole idea of atonement theory, my take on it i know people would like to have a debate with me about it was that it was humans that required the sacrifice, humans tend to want to sacrifice other people. look back on civilization, many civilizations were based upon a system of sacrifice, some of their members to apiece the gods or make sure things went well with their community and they thought because when things didn't go right that it was some how a short coming that could be satisfied by sacrifice with people. >> i always liked leslie weatherhead and will of god. >> you are ahead of me here >> he talks about the intention of will of god was to send jesus to come to love us. humankind's response was to kill. >> that's right. >> the ultimate will was that the resurrection. that was making a good thing out of a bad situation. >> right. >> for me the highlight of holy week is good friday when we consider this was the extent that god and jesus as we say had a special relationship with god, god hi

at the poverty of political ideas in the middle east. i mean this is a region where since the '50s, there's really -- there's been an endless cycle of wars between israel and it's neighbors. and the only ideas going in the mainstream in the political world has been arab nationalism, which was a drastic failure, and then there are a long time, really nothing. i mean there were small pockets of religious activism, and small pockets of religious activism, and nobody articulated a compelling idea. that's where hezbollah stepped in and was able to really take advantage of this vacuum and use it's message to appeal to the whole savue of people, and the person that helped me understand the hag was ali fiyad. i met him after the war was after when i scrapped the cargo pants and beard strategy to find a new way to talk to people. i approached some of my lebanese friends and i said do you think you could arrange one the under ground meetings to get in the trunk of a car and go to a secret place and meet a dude from hezbollah. they said why don't y

that goes directly against the idea. certainly, we always have to push against the notion of what celebrity means, this infatuation with material things. we are always fighting that. now with it being so rampant. just the other day, what does it mean to be fortunate? i think i have always been fortunate. we did not have a lot of money but this is not just monetary. it has to do with two people that raised me that cared about me. dusty williams played piano for the church choir. i was inspired by my preacher and here i am preaching. i have always been fortunate and we have to redefine what that means. >> you are going to be in russia when you officially take over in july. you officially take over from mrs. jamison in july. how do you process that? >> i have never been to russia. there will be a takeover. this is so exciting. miss jamison is a remarkable lady. for me to not only be succeeding where but also to just learn from her and to be able to call her a friend, someone who i looked up to as an image is now so human to

but in the 1860's people came up with the new idea, the horse car. a horse car was essentially a little car that horses could pull but it used rails, on the ground. rails reduced traction. so horses could pull larger loads. horse cars really started taking over all across the united states in the 1860's, but they had some draw backs as you might imagine. can anybody think of something that could be a bit of a problem with horses pulling cars? yes. well, for one thing, horses were living animals and they could get sick. so some industries, some companies, lost thousands of horses to disease, which was just terrible for business. the other thing is a horse can drop up to 10 pounds of fecal matter on the street every day. so you're talking about up and down market street, tons of these cars going back and forth every day. it was just a public noose -- nuissance, you might say, and pratches a health hazard. so people were excited to find new forms of transportation. and they came up with one we're all familiar with, the cable car. so here on the left you

in to sort of more of the ideas that the gentleman was talking about. so stay tuned. >> right now, i just found out that we have problems in the building. we have no funds, we have no generator. we have issues and budget cuts. we need your help to rebuild the building. it is awful. i want you to help all of us get our building and then. in case there is an earthquake, how to the building people -- we need your help. we have 130, and in the air. that is why i came here. i just came from our meeting. go tell them that we need funds for our building. >> i submitted a card, but i don't know if you will get to it. i wanted to express my gratitude for the support of the memphis model for crisis intervention training. i am on that committee to formulate the training. i have just spent told that the major cuts are now coming from behavioral health. there was a loss of 22,500 business. we could have the best training for the police in the world, but if there are no services, how are you going to prevent tragedies and, says and everything else? it is just unaccep

we need to communicate with them what the ideas are and how we can be helpful. the same thing that dnc did. they did this and more. >> office to you want -- do you want to see more conservative figures moderate the debates? >> that is something they can decide. >> what do you believe right now that president obama's biggest strengths are and will make the most difficult path to be him? speech good at giving a and he is good at making money. i think he's terrible following through on promises. i think he's been awful for our economy and i think those issues will from his ability to raise money. >> do you believe his segue since the midterm collection -- cutting the deal on extending the bush tax cuts -- that his attacking to the center is reminiscent of bill clinton in 1995 and the end result could be the same? >> i do not think so. if you look at this stimulus -- >> that was at the beginning of his term. >> if you look at where americans are on obama care and if you look at the strong opinions held by average voters in this country, they do not like the spending

there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits

gallery three features work that relates to the ideas of self-determinenism, alternative world making and utopia. visits can still participate in this -- visitors can still participate in this project. during the opening, we invite visitors to come in and try on these costumes, pose in front of the backdrop. he was really inspired by comic books that he read as growing up and thinks of this space as a post-apocalyptic monster portrait gallery where people can remain genderless once they put on the costumes. we think it's important that this be happening in san francisco, which is considered an ekpe center of the queer actual cure. the majority of the queer cultural events happen in june which has been designated as the pride month. which to me translates as the period of time in which people can be in clear arts and culture. in september, it's hashingening back to that and proving that this is something that is scon significantly happening all the time. what danny and i hope visitors take away from this exhibition is to observe the diversity within the designation of queer in terms of

they were drawn to the idea of profit making. in 1972 someone did a survey showing 72% of the papers made no profit whatsoever, and they often weren't of very high quality my professional standards, and to me, maybe that's an unfair criteria to apply, but i'm not interested in the synthetic considerations in the book, but how they socialized people into the movement and radicalized people and drew people into their fold and gave readers a since of connection and belonging to the new left. that's the argument i try to pursue. the failure of daily newspapers cricketed in a lot of ways to the success of the underground press. large cities tended to have multiple different newspapers, but they became valuable properties, and people who could afford to buy them and consolidate them did, and cities with many papers began to have one or two, and so in a formally diverse newspaper world there was room for angry opinions to plushish and -- flourish and some people thought they were more bland and consensus based and the corporate structure

>> i think the idea is overrated. if you look at the number one source of news on the internet right now, y'all who. -- got to -- yahoo. no. 2 is cnn. they are not being filtered in a lot of cases. on the other hand, the stuff on the long tail, political blogs, typically are performing a supplemental role. they are continuing to build a large sites. it is a power curve. at the short end of the curve there are big sigh -- big sites. >> let's get sandy, we have a big line of audience members. >> talking with a number of people about looking at a cub talented that out for it the children that live in this state are going to be in poverty this year. 43% of women have babies now as single mothers. that is an historic shift. something is happening in gender relations. i saw a brilliant review on sunday, the text without context. the idea of physical reality is under assault as we move to a faster, edgier, noisier and more opinionated media landscape. what if all of the ethnic media, legacy media, decided to take back data th

idea sweeps through. so you had charles rice with the new property, the ideas that the right to welfare payments or the right to a government job or the right to teacher tenure or the right to some regulatory favor from government was really a new property that you should be entitled to keep, much preferable to the old property. this is credited with touching off the, much of the rights revolution of the '70s in which courts began creating various new due process and sometimes substantive rights with consequences we see today in the difficulty of getting rid of badly-functioning public employees and many other consequences. on to the public interest law of the 1970s, very much a project martialed at the leading law schools through the new conceptions that constitutional law was believed that the u.s. constitution properly read would require the institution of more or less the entire agenda of "the new york times" op-ed page. and down through identity politics with its notion that pretty much everything in the law even secured transactions and bankruptcy law should really be thought of as charged with race an

prior to that he came up with the idea of creating the little library.ndividual small books about 213. do you know how they were originally marketed? belittle whether library. how were they originally distributed? in boxes of whitman's samplers. prior to world war i, you would body the little library when he bought a chocolate. at one point and i don't know the figure, but over 10 million of the books were distributed in boxes of chocolate. the first war ended this marketing strategy. the little libraries are so popular on a certain individual additions have a little more value than others. usually they come in a variety of different displays. you can get them 32, 50 volumes an individual or sometimes they come with boxes that are very nice little wooden boxes. >> that's what i have. >> is it blue or brown? >> it's so old it's difficult to tell. it's not blue but it's black. >> they also came in black. i would preston -- this is a bookseller wannabe price. if they were in pristine condition and the box was really good i would price them about 150 to $200

so you get the idea. much, much cooler tomorrow. today some subtle changes and we'll look for temperatures to rebound into next week. we still have a power outage downtown? >> we do, near the civic center, traffic signals are out. right now, walnut creek, 680, traffic is moving well. we just watched the chp do a traffic break because there are boxes or were boxes in the right center lane near geary 680. traffic signals are out around the civic center and the intersection of ha yegs and geoff. accident reported 580 and lots of debris in the lanes there. be forewarned. >>> just ahead, wild weather here on earth today how it could have an impacts on nasa's plans. >> and the announcement that could have you check your wallet and rushing to blockbuster. >> and a preview and look why the a's opening weekend will be more than just baseball than just balls and strikes. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days-- i can do that. 60 miles compared to what a cancer patient goes through is a walk in the

here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let's keep it. were your mind is is how you build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that t

and the idea of heaven is the positive way to look at that. the way we behave and love and teach others, there is a great after-life, where you can be with others who behaved and acted morally in love. chris: is that why everybody buys gold, as a hedge? [laughter] >> but the idea of heaven and hell, this is something that new testament preaches, not the old testament. it's been a long, long-running debate. i went back and looked at a lot of oldtime covers, where this has been debated and played out. i do think that right now the message of heaven and embracing god and god will forgive you, that sells right now, and that's important for churches when you look at the decline in the numbers. chris: why does the right wing like the old testament so much? they love the old testament. >> they like revelations better than that. >> that's because jesus loved the poor. they thought they were better than the rich. chris: you always have a big sale with these. these of the kind of things people think about, and happy palm sunday everyone of christian fai

one today is the idea of the rights of man the basic issue of status of the destruction of the rights of those who produce in the united states and the tea parties of course are the battleground. we are today cousin or me we are the thin line between freedom and the status they want to create freedom is a wonderful thing to fight for it's time for us to join the army and that's something people. in nashville i met up with a collection of libertarian groups crossing the country pitching gorilla internet tactics for free market ideals over two hundred years ago guys a group of people just like you did something extraordinary ordinary people doing extraordinary things they were activists just like you i truly believe that they were activists then we are activists now make no distinction about it so what we do we become digital activists we are there by the media and we learn the media and we manipulate the media it was printing presses then it's the internet now that's where we influence the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens the tea party's got us running up the hills where the maj

there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move onto

>> you just aren't going to have all the good ideas. someone in the garage is going to have the good new idea. now, you have to be incredibly vigilant to see a new trend starting to take root and then start to pursue it in your own way and if you're late these days when you get millions of consumers using these platforms quickly it's hard to catch up and surpass them. i think microsoft continues to innovate and has tremendous resources and great people. but it's... but they're fully challenged now by some of these alternatives. the other thing i would say is that all companies have blind spots if you look at google and apple. they didn't really see social networks take root like the way they have so everybody has blind spots and then you say, well, if you're typically in the leadership position, these companies will say wait a minute i'll just put 50 guys on that and we can duplicate in the a few months but then the meantime the other products you're trying to compete with has improved, more people are using it. and if you get to enough